Thu 2017-02-16 16:33:56 UTC+1, Emmanuel Charpentier: > Dear Erik, > > Le jeudi 16 février 2017 11:09:00 UTC+1, Erik Bray a écrit : > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: >> >> > This is a followup on the threads dedicated to the alternatives existing to >> > use Sage math on Windows. More specifically, I did an informal comparison of >> > Erik Bray's Cygwin-based installer and using Windows 10 64 bits Windows >> > Subsystem for Linux.
[...] >> Did you also test plotting? > > In the Jupyter notebook. It worked. I can't recall having tested it in a terminal > windows nor in a mintty console, but I would have probably noted > if it didn't work... > >> It should work, but one or two people >> have reported it not working (it should work as long as your Windows >> has a default program registered for viewing PNGs or whatever file >> type the plots are saved as). > > I don't know if a "stock" Windows machine even has such a program : > .png is quite foreign in the Windows world, where the natives are > expected to speak .bpm (yuck !) .wmf (yuckier :-) or .emf (yuckiest...) A stock windows machine probably has a web browser, and any modern web browser can view PNGs. If nothing is registered as the default program for viewing PNGs, I guess you could set the default to your favourite web browser by visiting the appropriate preference pane. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
